B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday () is a 2024 Danish coming-of-age drama film, directed by , who co-wrote with . The film stars , Bodil Jørgensen, Jens Jørn Spottag, and . It premiered at the Buster Film Festival in 2024, before its limited theatrical release throughout Denmark the following year.
Synopsis A 16-year-old boy, who spends the summer with his grandparents, falls in love with an older young man. But when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.
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Reception Vittoria Scarpa of Cineuropa lauded the film for its dark elements: "The film's original title, Glasskår, means 'shards of glass', whereas the international title references the wounds we carry with us from childhood. These two elements—glass and wounds, both metaphorical and real—meld together in this movie, which starts out as a run-of-the-mill story about a slightly boring summer which a 16-year-old boy is spending with his grandparents in the countryside, but which ends up sucking its protagonist—with his angelic face and blond curls—into a vortex of degradation, humiliation and masochism which hurts just to watch it."
Rubén Rosario of Miami ArtZine praised the lead performance and filmmaker: "But thanks to Noa Risbro Hjerrild's solid central performance, and Søren Green's refusal to look away from the dark turns his protagonist's arc takes, B.O.Y. is an absorbing chronicle of a turbulent adolescence, a meltdown in slow motion where the anger and rebellious defiance are turned inward. It sinks its hooks on you."
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